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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






2. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






3. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






4. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






5. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






6. A three-line stanza.






7. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






8. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






9. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






10. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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12. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






13. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






14. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






15. The time and place of a story or play.






16. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






17. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






18. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






19. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






20. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






21. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






22. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






23. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






24. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






25. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






26. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






27. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






28. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






29. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






30. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






31. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






32. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






33. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






34. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






35. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






36. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






37. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






38. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






39. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






40. A short saying with a moral.






41. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






43. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






44. The main character of a literary work.






45. What a story or play is about.






46. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






47. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






48. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






49. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.







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